Run node app as a service forwarding logs to local syslog. Can also be remote syslog using logger -n

_etc_init_web-a5.conf

# This is one of those little treasures hidden in the filesystem 
# you always forget how you did it and which server you have it running on
# so, here it is 
#
description "node web-a5-app"
start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
script
  [ -p /var/run/web-a5-out ] && rm /var/run/web-a5-out
  [ -p /var/run/web-a5-err ] && rm /var/run/web-a5-err

  mkfifo /var/run/web-a5-out
  mkfifo /var/run/web-a5-err
  ( logger -t web-a5-out < /var/run/web-a5-out & )
  ( logger -t web-a5-err < /var/run/web-a5-err & )
  exec >/var/run/web-a5-out
  exec 2>/var/run/web-a5-err
  cd /var/website
  exec /home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.1/bin/node /var/website/server.js 6100
end script